Economics and Psychology One Day Conference: November 23rd.

We will be hosting a session on Economics and Psychology in the UCD Research Building on November 23rd. Those who wish to attend should RSVP to Phillipa Barrington at geary@ucd.ie. Please indicate whether you wish to attend the full-day session or the keynote lecture by Professor Laibson only. The programme is below:

Economics, Psychology and Neuroscience Third Annual One Day Session: UCD Research Building

10.00am - 10.30am

Martin Ryan (UCD)  "The Role of Economic Psychology and Non-Cognitive Skill in Students' Lecture Attendance and Academic Achievement"

10.30am - 11am

Liam Delaney (UCD)  "Automatic Enrollment and the Irish Pension System"

11am - 11.20am: Coffee

11.30am - 12pm

Cormac O'Dea (IFS and UCL). "Cognitive function, numeracy and retirement saving trajectories"

12pm - 12.30pm

Marie Briguglio (University of Malta). "Voluntary Pro-Environmental Behaviour".

1230pm - 1pm

Michael Daly(TCD) "How income relates to life satisfaction and daily emotional experience: Evidence from the American Life Panel"

LUNCH

2pm - 2.30pm

Mick O'Connell (UCD) "Variation in 'Returns to Education' and academic performance by country in OECD's PISA science scores"

2.30pm to 3pm

Robert Metcalfe (Oxford) "Behavioural Economics TBA"

3pm - 3.30pm

Peter Lunn (ESRI) "What Can I Get For It? A theoretical and empirical re-analysis of the endowment effect."

3.30pm - 4pm Coffee

4pm - 5.30pm: Keynote Speaker.

David Laibson (Harvard) "Natural Expectations and Economic Behavior"